Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Helen [Muir]
Transcription
Little Kern Lake, July 2, /08
Darling Helen. It seems an ago since I saw you - so many people & places have I seen, & so many my enjoyments. Everybody keeps asking about you. that's why I like them. But really the party is a fine superior lot of hale hearty mountain-lovers. we got here last evening & 0 the sight & sound of living water & the low Chanting of the wind in the pines. The air is not so delicious here as the dry desert article tauten in the early morning, but exhilarating in combination with sights & sounds beyond all telling. I feel fine, stand erect, & look rather braggy, at least I feel so - in spits of the rough dusty trails & scanty sleep, 1st morning all up, the whole swarm buzzing at 3 o'clock - 2d at 4:30 - 3d at 4.
The water is delicious, cool & crystal clear, & the Kern here is a noble stream. You & I must make a trip here some of those days soon to come. We are about 6000 ft. above sea-level. We left S.F on the 29th. The weather even at our own rench was not as your desert. I dont know yet just when I can got away from the mtns.
Keep well, grow strong & you & I will see lots of the best of this world.
Lovingly,
John Muir
Location
Little Kern Lake
Date Original
1908 Jul 2
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Helen [Muir], 1908 Jul 2." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5471.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5471
Resource Identifier
muir17_0715-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0715
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
